The 2025 J.U.C. Awards | Submitted Category: WRITING | Submission Code: W11 #JUC2025 |
Dedication theme: #WaterActionDecade | Word count: 1288

The Water and the Life Cycle are One

[#JUCAwards2025] According to the basic knowledge of this fifteen-year-old, water has become the most popular drink on Earth, undoubtedly breaking every record. It travels through a cycle, just like our lives. A single raindrop hits mountain tops, cliffs, rocks and finally starts its journey to the ocean by traveling on a smooth stream. No explanation needed on how similar our lives are too for that young, small raindrop. Even though it’s the most popular, it’s extremely underrated. In a world where the majority doesn’t give a drop of attention about their health and hygiene, it is extremely common to see the illness we see in the life of a busy guy in a country with a hot climate residence and with no source of fresh clean water, dehydration. Water is just like a street dog. A street dog who immensely fights for the attention of a total stranger walking on the street with a kind heart yet, gets neglected. 

May it be God who created Earth or may it be the Big Bang which created Earth, what matters is that water was created for the breathing organisms to survive and we as humans are in charge of protecting it. What is evolution, anyways? We as proud humans evolved from lovers of nature who accepted nature as their brother, fought for it like it was their mother, to people who are stuck in their imaginary worlds. People who live in a fairytale surrounded by a large brick wall covering up the majority of the Earth who are dying and hardly surviving. The single drop of water which falls out of the faucet which we don’t even care about, was once worshiped by the great Kings of Sri Lanka along with millions of other drops, which formed tanks which still feed and power the island. What happened to the element which held hands with us and loved us as a brother?

“What was the exact second in which this separation occurred?” That is a good question to neglect, as it is so close to being too late to look back at things and whimper. The question which should be asked worldwide is “when will humans and water get reunited?” If this element had a mouth it would yell things which would shatter our hearts and drown us in tears, if heard. Yet, how can it speak? Even if it yields a mouth, how can it yell? Its mouth is covered in plastic, poison and various other things which humans throw out. 

Some are locked in their worlds of problems and stress. Some worry about pleasing others with their attire, attitude, style and food. Some worry about competition against their schoolmate, teammate or co – worker. Some worry about standing on a podium platform labeled number one with a golden medal around their necks or to have an ‘A’ written on a test paper in red handwriting. Among these worries, when will we absolutely find time to see the beauty which the great bang or God created? When will we find time to see the beauty in our hearts? When will we start loving ourselves and in the process, start loving our mother nature? The water and the life cycle are one. It’s almost equal. We stopped caring about our long lasting happiness and appreciation for a short term satisfaction. Since we stopped caring about our hearts, love and health, we also forgot the fact that nature exists, forgetting about its well-being, too. We accepted trash into our hearts and minds, made ourselves suffer even for the smallest of worries. So did we accept trash into oceans and made the beings suffer as well. Our hearts got black with envy and greed, so did the bodies of water with leaked oil from boats, ships and yachts. The day which water started its pollution was the day we started polluting our lives and the future’s. The more we care about our freedom and life, the more we will start caring about nature’s strife. Pollution will greet goodbye. Animal life will survive.

Not everyone has forgotten about the energetic drink called water. The ones who are really attached to it are the ones who cannot afford to drink clean water. Their water cycle is equal to their life cycle as their lives depend on that one small drop. The humans will survive by walking miles for a single pot of water while the masked humans are provided gallons to their doorstep. Hence, it’s not appreciated by the masked humans as they never learnt the lesson on how to appreciate small things in life while battling against the busy schedules of a lifetime. I appreciate my creator for not providing any animal other than the two legged, hairless ape with a mouth, to speak. My personal belief is that humans will rip apart their ears just by hearing the curses of the avian, mammals, amphibians, Pisces and the reptiles. 

Glancing at my opinion, there is no other way to consume our precious time than to make eighteen plus citizens change their minds. From kindergarten, we learn about ways we can prevent pollution and destruction, forced to write essays for the term test or to give a speech on pollution for a competition. But, where are the results of those valuable opinions of a new – to – the – big – world – child? They will be only valuable until their essays are graded and are written in the report card. They will only be valuable until the kindergartener wins a prize or a certificate for his or her speech. What’s even the point of listening to a junior with a bigger knowledge about the world and bigger love for nature? What do they know, right? That same child is separated by the outer green world with the aid of so-called book centered “education” in the island. Then, expect him or her to love and take care of nature and revive the browned up planet.

Some wait for the Messiah while some wait for the return of the Messiah. Some have opened their mouths, waiting for a savior. Some want change. Some want empowerment. Some want a lover to sacrifice his or her blood, tears and sweat for nature. We’ve been searching for a game changer for centuries. Where is he or her? Everyone waited for the hero and the game changer but, never ever they wanted to be the hero. Never ever have they had the ambition to change the game. What can a small person from a small town do to a world just by changing his path when the other 8 billion people are traveling on the same path? The ripple effect gets the spotlight at this second. We can’t change the past or the people in it. But, we can always change the future and the newborns. A single person’s impact can affect and empower the change of thousands. It’s time to not to look for change but to be the change. 

The award for the best patience found in an entity should undoubtedly go to nature as we have harmed her, too much. Did we ever think about providing her some rest? Therefore, we shall connect and commence the relationship between our life and water, this very moment. Why should we hear the laughs of all the garbage bins, trash bags and dung beetles for the amount of trash we put on ourselves? We shall forget all wars among nature and us and create that loved relationship with the element of water once again. A future for everyone. A bright one. Sadness will be in none. The water cycle and the life cycle will be one!

The 2025 J.U.C. Awards | Submitted Category: WRITING | Submission Code: W11 #JUC2025 |
Dedication theme: #WaterActionDecade | Word count: 1288

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